crazyewok
You guy get all scared by a few angry goat hurders/ terrorists yet mother nature could do more damage at any moment than a 1000 9/11's all at once.
Maybe instead of spending trillions on wars and a hyper police state a few tsunami and earthquake defence systems woukd have beenn in order!

And then theres that bemammoth under yellowstone......

That's a nice sentiment, but tell me....what does a "tsunami and earthquake defence system" look like? What would you get for a trillion dollars?
Around here we have a few signs on the highways that say "Volcano escape route" and that's just about it. I suppose you could put some signs in the
opposite direction saying, "Tsunami escape route" or the always favorite, "In case of tsunami, seek higher ground" (true story on the coast of
Washington.)

That's a nice sentiment, but tell me....what does a "tsunami and earthquake defence system" look like? What would you get for a trillion dollars?
Around here we have a few signs on the highways that say "Volcano escape route" and that's just about it. I suppose you could put some signs in the
opposite direction saying, "Tsunami escape route" or the always favorite, "In case of tsunami, seek higher ground" (true story on the coast of
Washington.)

I feel better now.

Tsunami walls would be a start.

Mass evacuation plans. Massive investment in the at risk areas Infrastructure to allow mass evacuation.
Warning sirens. Shelters. Moveing people out of the most at risk areas.

That's a nice sentiment, but tell me....what does a "tsunami and earthquake defence system" look like? What would you get for a trillion dollars?
Around here we have a few signs on the highways that say "Volcano escape route" and that's just about it. I suppose you could put some signs in the
opposite direction saying, "Tsunami escape route" or the always favorite, "In case of tsunami, seek higher ground" (true story on the coast of
Washington.)

I feel better now.

Tsunami walls would be a start.

Mass evacuation plans. Massive investment in the at risk areas Infrastructure to allow mass evacuation.
Warning sirens. Shelters. Moveing people out of the most at risk areas.

Emergency evacuation blimps. The only direction you could evacuate everyone safely would be upwards. Either that or giant 150 foot high solid steel
walls that rise up out of the ocean. Even then they would have to interlock like the London flood defences.

Emergency evacuation blimps. The only direction you could evacuate everyone safely would be upwards. Either that or giant 150 foot high solid steel
walls that rise up out of the ocean. Even then they would have to interlock like the London flood defences.

Well a $1 Trillion could go a long way. And im sure the US goverment could have spared 2 if it hadnt gone on a silly crusade in the ME chasing goat
herders and budding up to Israel.

But hey I guess the tens of millions that live on the west coast are expendable.

Mass evacuation plans. Massive investment in the at risk areas Infrastructure to allow mass evacuation.
Warning sirens. Shelters. Moveing people out of the most at risk areas.

We HAVE mass evacuation plans. You want us to build twenty lane highways away from the water? Environmentalists would stop that in a hurry. What?
Toward the volcanos (which are inland)? Warning sirens? We've got those, too. Moving people? OK. When you've evacuated Los Angeles, San Francisco, and
San Diego, let us know.

The thing is, these kinds of actions are impractical. People won't go along with them and will not support them for a variety of reasons. The kind of
infrastructure you want to build would have to be enforced by a totalitarian government under the same kind of pressures to invest government money
elsewhere to "fight poverty," etc. all for threats people don't take seriously. Perhaps they should, but preparing to survive an event that happens
every few ten thousand years is not a sufficient motivation.

The fact is, we are not going to survive a Yellowstone-type eruption, period. Humanity will survive, surely, but the global civilization we have
surely will not. There are so many dangers from so many directions that we can't even prioritize what is most important. The populace, which pays the
bills, will not agree with these "solutions."

I saw a special that was in hawaii, this guy was standing in this HUGE crack, he said when the side falls off into the ocean it would cause a super
tsunami, I am assuming that this thread is about that, though it was several years ago.

I believe I remember that documentry too. Was it the one that was trying to show that they found land in Alaska which rose out of the sea 30 feet or
so do to a massive earthquake, then they found evedince in Japan and California of a Massive rogue tsunami that devistated the lands decades ago and
they made a link between the alaskan earthquake and the rogue tsunami that hit booth California and Japan. If so, That was a great documentry.

Now as for that shelf, I place that in the same catagory as the Juan de fuca trench.
There are just some things that you can't do nothing about.
I remember all through Highschool when I took all the Earth Sciences/Geology/Geography classes, we were always warned about the massive earthquake
that was going to hit us soon, an earthquake so big that it trumps everything on record. and that where I live ,because it is on a ancient delta, the
ground is going to liquify and the houses and buildings are just going to sink in the ground and every one will mostlikly die.

They ONLY thing you can do to avoid this is move to the interior, move the the middle of your country.
What if both these incedences happen at the same time?
From what I remember from school is that it will be at least 12 on the rickter scale.

They claim that one of the terms was mistranslated from one version of the article to another with the more sensationalized version becoming
the popular one. Given that this is our government we're talking about ... well, I'd take with some salt.

The article in question is quoted at the top and gives you some idea of the scales involved.

This site has some visuals for you. Like the maps I think you requested.

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